Mr. President. the Austrian Treaty has been the subject of considerable discussion.. Over the wire service this morning has come a story datelined Vienna. and reading as follows: VIENNA.-Soviet Russia demanded the Austrian State Treaty contain controversial "article 16" which would permit the Communists to retake some 36.000 iron curtain refugees in Austria. The Russians want a clause in the treaty allowing Communist "interviewers" to visit Austrian refugee camps and arrange wholesale deportation of men. women. and children back to the Communist nations front which they fled. The United States is dead set against the article and informed sources said it was likely to be one of the thorniest points of EastWest dispute at the treaty conference which opened here yesterday with Big Four envoys and the Austrian foreign minister present. The envoys. who announced in a communique they made "notable progress" at the first session. were reported to have approved 15 treaty articles at their first session including one providing for Austrias reestablishment as a "sovereign. independent. and democratic state." The draft treaty. ending 10 years of occupation and restoring Austrias freedom for the first time since it was absorbed by Hitlerite Germany in 1938. has 59 articles.
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